Here we are again, back on the boat discussing Stirner’s ideas. On my best days I view this project as an attempt to break from the ideological & eschatological thinking that hangs like a pall over anarchists and humans alike. It is difficult to discuss Stirner because most people haven’t read him and also because many believe that they know what is contained in this book from whatever they have read or heard other people say. We are not attempting to do the work for you, but rather to provide a companion with which to interact while reading Wolfi’s rewriting of Stirner’s book. As someone who reads all the time, it is frustrating to have few people to discuss the books with. It is frustrating because I believe reading to both an anti-social(while doing it) and social(it changes me and then I interact differently when socializing) activity. When I read a book that makes me question myself, my idea, my ideals, and what I hold closest, I am compelled to share this new version of my self with friends, fuck it, with strangers too. So here sits our version of sharing, our hope that in talking with each other we can better understand ours elves and how to relate to each other and further complicate our selves and relations to revel in pretending we can see and understand the chaos for just a little bit.read more

Here we present to you a recording of Structures of Desire: Postanarchist kink in the speculative fiction of Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany, written by Lewis Call.

But Butler and Delany go further than many of their peers, for they not only provide a compelling critique of the political and sexual economies of slavery, they also provide an alternative. For Butler and Delany, erotic power exchange and play-slavery provide an antidote to the ethically bankrupt institution of slavery. These two authors thus offer us a way to begin healing the wounds which chattel slavery has left upon our culture and its philosophy of ethics. read more

In episode VII we discuss the second half of the chapter My Intercourse in the Unique and Its Property by Max Stirner, translated by Wolfi Lanstreicher.

What happens when six friends(aided by adult beverages and friendly plants) get together on a sailboat(well a parked sailboat) in the Pacific Ocean to discuss Stirner’s seminal piece of writing. Did the world change? Did we change? Did we discuss whether or not this was even possible? I’m not so sure. What I do know is that there are few things I love more than reading a book and shooting the shit with a few friends who also enjoy battling over ideas and seeing if it possible to take them out of the realm of the platonic and into the realm of our lives. To listen to us is to listen on a conversation shared between friends that we do for our selves but also that we love to share. Here are some things we hit on:read more

In episode VII of the Stirner Series we cover the second 50 pages of the chapter My Intercourse. In this episode Keehar, Big Cat, and rydra wrong discuss all things Stirner. We delve deeper into Stirner’s ideas and how they relate to our own lives. Some people have wondered what the purpose of this project is. The answer is simple: we are a group of friends who enjoy reading, talking, fighting, and laughing about books we like. If that isn’t of interest to you, then we probably wouldn’t get along very well if we met in the meat space. We do this project for ourselves, but we share it for our glory and because fuck, why not! read more

Here I have tried to map present and plausible futures whilst calling for a desertion from old illusions and unwinnable battles in favour of the possible. I would hope that the implicit call throughout, for us to individually and collectively desert the cause of class society/civilisation, was clear. Yet I can already hear the accusations from my own camp; accusations of deserting the cause of Revolution, deserting the struggle for Another World. Such accusations are correct. I would rejoin that such millenarian and progressive myths are at the very core of the expansion of power. We can be more anarchic than that.read more

Welcome to episode 5 of the FRR Books Podcast series on Max Stirner’s The Unique and its Property translated by Wolif Landstreicher. In this podcast we cover section 2.1 Ownness and stop at section2.2.1 My Power

This episode is hosted by Kahar, John, Big Cat, Chuck and rydra wrong. We are back on the sea packed 5 deep like sardines on the FRR sailboat.

Discussed in this episode:

What is the difference between freedom and ownness

Does Stirner hate freedom! It has nothing for you! What does that mean? Can he let go !?

Freedom apparently meanings being “rid of things”

Occupy Stirner! What the fuck

We discuss how our dating lives are relevant to Stirner, are they?

Does consent matter when it comes to ownership and property(in the Stirnerian sense)?

Take when you want and throw away the rest: Is this just a cliche or actually useful

Concepts! What the fuck is a concept! How do we use them

Who does Stirner give the status of capital B Being to ?

Can a slave be inwardly free? Is this trivial?

Stirner says there is freedom and unfreedom! No such thing as half way crooks! But is he just creating a binary of freedom and unfreedom to destroy the concept! woooooah

Chuck says romantic relationships are being trained to treasures! Benefits vs a chain!

John says chosen bondage is freedom, like being in a dungeon! We discuss!

What the fuck is Stirner’s problems with rocks. Rydra fights with Stirner in a landslide of discontent. Also panpsychism is so last year.

Kahar likes his Christians out of the closet, he is pleased!

Kahar and Big Cat argue over Kahar’s belief that selves can be divided into parts

Welcome to episode 4 of the FRR Books Podcast series on Max Stirner’s The Unique and its Property translated by Wolif Landstreicher. In this podcast we cover section 2.1 and stop at section 2.2.1 My Power

This episode is hosted by Kahar, John, and rydra wrong. This is our first go recording podcasts at sea! We are floating on water as we speak!

Welcome to episode 3 of the FRR Books Podcast series on Max Stirner’s The Unique and its Property translated by Wolif Landstreicher. In this podcast we cover section 1.3 The Free. This episode is hosted by Cornelius, Chuck, and rydra wrong.

Discussed in this episode:

How do we eat the profane? What have we held sacred that we no longer do?

Fear! How do we develop an intimate relationship with fear! Another excuse to talk about surfing!

Talk of shit! Another excuse for rydra to bring up Kundera

Talk of Christianity being spread among the non-secular

Dissolution of the object and the flavors of abstraction! There are many to choose from!

We are in a sea of phenomenology says Cornelius!

Children! Talk of Kids!

Chuck says part of humanity is thinking of yourself in relation to an ideal human, we discuss this!

Cornelius feels limited by society, even suffocated but she remains more interested in the physiology and bacteria living within human beings!

﻿Welcome to episode 2 of the FRR Books Podcast series on Max Stirner’s The Unique and its Property translated by Wolif Landstreicher. In this podcast we cover section 1.2.3 The Hierarchy, completing section 1.2, stopping just before section 1.3 The Free.

In this episode we discuss:

What is a fixed idea? Can we be free of fixed ideas

Is Kahar a nihilist? Is Stirner a nihilist? Can Kahar defend nihilism against Rydra’s devilish advocacy

Can we actually abandon objective morality

Ethics as a semantic and non-meaningful replacement of morality

What is a self? Are our selves continuous, discontinuous, or something else

Nev always desires to be bad and that is kind of hotttt

We discuss essence and if we have an essence using Francis Bacon’s Scream painting and Milan Kundera’s thoughts on them

How hard is rydra’s solipsism? Can Kahar avoid being negated by it? Does he care or is he just a tentacle of rydra’s octopus.

Discussion of how we can trust another person with the context being them changing over time